Grants policy - Funding principles
The AXA Research Fund, for ethical reasons, does not fund research in any of the following areas:
- Research violating national regulations
- Research having direct military use
- Research having potentially dangerous environmental impact, research relying on the artificial production of highly infectious pathogens with potential large scale harmful/lethal effects for humans
- Biomedical research led without the informed consent of the donors
- Research on embryonic stem cells
- Research processing private personal data without the informed consent of the concerned parties (incl. genetic information)
- Research activities aiming at human cloning
Granted projects
€ 99 million committed, 367 research projects supported in 27 countries, 49 different nationalities.
News
Pierre-André Chiappori quoted AXA Research Fund as a model of corporate funding of research
Pierre-André Chiappori, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, just published a study about the funding of research. He was interviewed on BFM radio to briefly present its results and quoted Henri de Castries and the AXA Research Fund as a model of corporate funding of research.
Results of 2011 Post-Doc and PhD fellowship campaigns are online!
The AXA Research Fund is pleased to announce the results of the selected applications for its 2011 PhDs and Post-Docs (Wave 1) Fellowships Campaign.
How to obtain funding
Institutions and researchers: find out more about our grants.
